https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&feed=atom&action=historyHalliburton - Revision history2024-03-28T19:01:09ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&diff=215398&oldid=prevMelissa Jones: /* Fracking interests */2015-04-10T00:47:26Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Fracking interests</span></span></p>
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</table>Melissa Joneshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&diff=213078&oldid=prevMelissa Jones: /* Fracking interests */2015-03-11T03:02:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Fracking interests</span></span></p>
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</table>Melissa Joneshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&diff=212731&oldid=prevMelissa Jones: /* Products/ Projects */ updated tense2015-03-10T11:31:00Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Products/ Projects: </span> updated tense</span></p>
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<a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&diff=47723&oldid=31289">Show changes</a>Lynn Hillhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Halliburton&diff=31289&oldid=prevSuzanne Garnham at 15:07, 26 July 20072007-07-26T15:07:56Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In March 2002, Lesar separated Halliburton into two wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: Halliburton's Energy Services Group and KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) Engineering and Construction.13 The KBR subsidiary went on to bring in all but $1 million of Halliburton’s $657.5 million military loot.14</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In March 2002, Lesar separated Halliburton into two wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Halliburton's Energy Services Group<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and KBR <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>(Kellogg Brown & Root) Engineering and Construction<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.13 The KBR subsidiary went on to bring in all but $1 million of Halliburton’s $657.5 million military loot.14</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>June 2002 saw the first LOGCAP contract in the 'war on terrorism' (LOGCAP is a U.S. Army initiative that uses civilian contractors to support U.S. forces in Department of Defense missions15) with KBR awarded a $22 million deal to run support services at Camp Stronghold Freedom, located at the Khanabad air base in central Uzbekistan. Khanabad was one of the main US bases in the Afghanistan war that housed some 1,000 US soldiers from the Green Berets and the 10th Mountain Division.16 In November 2002, Brown and Root began a one-year contract, estimated at $42.5 million, to cover services for troops at bases in both Bagram and Khandahar, in Afghanistan. Brown and Root employees were set to work running laundry services, showers, mess halls and installing heaters in soldiers' tents.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>June 2002 saw the first LOGCAP contract in the 'war on terrorism' (LOGCAP is a U.S. Army initiative that uses civilian contractors to support U.S. forces in Department of Defense missions15) with KBR awarded a $22 million deal to run support services at Camp Stronghold Freedom, located at the Khanabad air base in central Uzbekistan. Khanabad was one of the main US bases in the Afghanistan war that housed some 1,000 US soldiers from the Green Berets and the 10th Mountain Division.16 In November 2002, Brown and Root began a one-year contract, estimated at $42.5 million, to cover services for troops at bases in both Bagram and Khandahar, in Afghanistan. Brown and Root employees were set to work running laundry services, showers, mess halls and installing heaters in soldiers' tents.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of its current projects is the construction of the Barracuda-Caratinga offshore pipeline in Brazil. It recently admitted that it expects to take an after-tax charge of about $104 million due to cost overruns and delays. This will be the third charge for the project.19 The attack on Iraq has proved enormously lucrative and there is plenty of scope for more senseless money-making thanks to LOGCAP and the US's probably never-ending 'war on terror'. For example, although Halliburton's current contract (worth $118 million) to provide catering and housing for US troops in the Turkish cities of Incirlik, Ankara and Izmir is due to expire this September,20 US army officials have confirmed that KBR has been awarded new and additional contracts in Turkey. Similarly, new contracts for providing facilities for troops illegally holding Al-Qaeda suspects in Cuba (see 'Corporate Crimes') have also fallen into KBR's lap.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of its current projects is the construction of the Barracuda-Caratinga offshore pipeline in Brazil. It recently admitted that it expects to take an after-tax charge of about $104 million due to cost overruns and delays. This will be the third charge for the project.19 The attack on Iraq has proved enormously lucrative and there is plenty of scope for more senseless money-making thanks to LOGCAP and the US's probably never-ending 'war on terror'. For example, although Halliburton's current contract (worth $118 million) to provide catering and housing for US troops in the Turkish cities of Incirlik, Ankara and Izmir is due to expire this September,20 US army officials have confirmed that KBR has been awarded new and additional contracts in Turkey. Similarly, new contracts for providing facilities for troops illegally holding Al-Qaeda suspects in Cuba (see 'Corporate Crimes') have also fallen into KBR's lap.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As resistance to corporate influence grows, those companies that have previously sat smugly on the sidelines, enjoying relative anonymity, have suddenly found themselves under the spotlight. Halliburton is the perfect example. Its gleeful hand-rubbing over the destruction of Iraq was exposed when it landed $500m worth of work there - $425m from an army contract to provide logistical support and $70m for extinguishing oil well fires. This is despite a history of cost overruns and accounting fraud.1 It was also controversially named as one of the five US corporations invited by USAID (which is funded by US taxpayers) to make a bid for a $600 million contract to rebuild the basic infrastructure of Iraq.2 Halliburton ranked as the seventeenth leading recipient of US defence contracts in 1999.3 From WWII to Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iraq, Halliburton has a seemingly magical ability to turn a profit from suffering.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As resistance to corporate influence grows, those companies that have previously sat smugly on the sidelines, enjoying relative anonymity, have suddenly found themselves under the spotlight. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Halliburton<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>is the perfect example. Its gleeful hand-rubbing over the destruction of Iraq was exposed when it landed $500m worth of work there - $425m from an army contract to provide logistical support and $70m for extinguishing oil well fires. This is despite a history of cost overruns and accounting fraud.1 It was also controversially named as one of the five US corporations invited by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>USAID<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>(which is funded by US taxpayers) to make a bid for a $600 million contract to rebuild the basic infrastructure of Iraq.2 Halliburton ranked as the seventeenth leading recipient of US defence contracts in 1999.3 From WWII to Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iraq, Halliburton has a seemingly magical ability to turn a profit from suffering.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Democrat representative Henry Waxman, like many others, has begun to openly question the extent of Halliburton's links to the Bush administration. 'It is simply remarkable that a single company could earn so much money from the war,' he said.4 Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member, Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., recently urged the US Senate that congressional hearings be held to examine in detail the no-bid contract awarded to it.5</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Democrat representative <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Henry Waxman<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, like many others, has begun to openly question the extent of Halliburton's links to the Bush administration. 'It is simply remarkable that a single company could earn so much money from the war,' he said.4 Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Joe Lieberman<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, D-Conn., recently urged the US Senate that congressional hearings be held to examine in detail the no-bid contract awarded to it.5</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halliburton ranks 153rd in the 2002 Fortune 500.6 It describes itself as 'one of the largest providers of products and services to the oil and gas industries'.7 It also earns considerable income from major civil and military projects, such as building roads and deploying infrastructure for overseas US Operations.8</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halliburton ranks 153rd in the 2002 Fortune 500.6 It describes itself as 'one of the largest providers of products and services to the oil and gas industries'.7 It also earns considerable income from major civil and military projects, such as building roads and deploying infrastructure for overseas US Operations.8</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Erle Palmer Halliburton learned the process of cementing oil wells to protect the oil from contamination by underground water and strengthen the walls of the well during his employment with Perkins Oil Well Cementing Company. He was sacked in 1916 for suggesting too many method changes and decided to go it alone. He borrowed a pump and wagon, pawned his wife's wedding ring and headed for Texas.10</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Erle Palmer Halliburton<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>learned the process of cementing oil wells to protect the oil from contamination by underground water and strengthen the walls of the well during his employment with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Perkins Oil Well Cementing Company<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. He was sacked in 1916 for suggesting too many method changes and decided to go it alone. He borrowed a pump and wagon, pawned his wife's wedding ring and headed for Texas.10</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1920, Halliburton had established the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company. Four years later he decided to expand, and the Halliburton corporation was born. Its trump card lay in its meticulous patenting of all new processes and devices, which left the oil companies unable to have oil wells cemented without using Halliburton services. The 1930s saw automobile production soar from 2.3 million vehicles in 1931 to 4.5 million by 1940. Domestic oil heating also grew from 100,000 homes supplied in 1929 to two million by 1940. This increase in demand allowed Halliburton to open four new branches and become involved in the marine oil exploration taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1920, Halliburton had established the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Four years later he decided to expand, and the Halliburton corporation was born. Its trump card lay in its meticulous patenting of all new processes and devices, which left the oil companies unable to have oil wells cemented without using Halliburton services. The 1930s saw automobile production soar from 2.3 million vehicles in 1931 to 4.5 million by 1940. Domestic oil heating also grew from 100,000 homes supplied in 1929 to two million by 1940. This increase in demand allowed Halliburton to open four new branches and become involved in the marine oil exploration taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ironically, 1940 saw Halliburton buying up his old employer, Perkins Cementing Company, and opening his first South American subsidiary, in Venezuela. These two moves proved profitable and just one year later, turnover reached $13.5 million, of which $2million was net profit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ironically, 1940 saw Halliburton buying up his old employer, Perkins Cementing Company, and opening his first South American subsidiary, in Venezuela. These two moves proved profitable and just one year later, turnover reached $13.5 million, of which $2million was net profit.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halliburton's first foray into war profiteering began soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The company began to make gun-mount bearings for the US Navy and parts for the B-29 bomber and Boeing aeroplane plant. Wartime contracts were lucrative, and when World War II ended in 1945, the company's annual turnover reached $25.7 million. Between 1950 and 1955 the company expanded in all directions and now had 7,000 employees. Oil exploration in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast areas was flourishing; 23 vessels as well as about $10 million worth of other equipment were available for offshore drilling purposes. Research and development kept the company at the forefront of oil exploration technology. Costing $3million in 1956 alone, it rewarded the company's efforts with a new composition for cementing deep wells amongst other developments.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Halliburton's first foray into war profiteering began soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The company began to make gun-mount bearings for the US Navy and parts for the B-29 bomber and Boeing aeroplane plant. Wartime contracts were lucrative, and when World War II ended in 1945, the company's annual turnover reached $25.7 million. Between 1950 and 1955 the company expanded in all directions and now had 7,000 employees. Oil exploration in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast areas was flourishing; 23 vessels as well as about $10 million worth of other equipment were available for offshore drilling purposes. Research and development kept the company at the forefront of oil exploration technology. Costing $3million in 1956 alone, it rewarded the company's efforts with a new composition for cementing deep wells amongst other developments.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Erle Halliburton died in 1957, the New York Times cited him as one of the richest people in the US – with a fortune of $100 million. That same year saw the acquisition of three companies involved in electronic testing, logging services and making rail car couplings. This acquisition program continued following the post-1957 oil slump. Otis Engineering Corporation joined the company in 1959, with Brown & Root Inc. (a firm internationally known for the construction of military bases, petrochemical plants and offshore platforms) becoming a subsidiary in 1962.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Erle Halliburton died in 1957, the New York Times cited him as one of the richest people in the US – with a fortune of $100 million. That same year saw the acquisition of three companies involved in electronic testing, logging services and making rail car couplings. This acquisition program continued following the post-1957 oil slump. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Otis Engineering Corporation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>joined the company in 1959, with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Brown & Root Inc.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>(a firm internationally known for the construction of military bases, petrochemical plants and offshore platforms) becoming a subsidiary in 1962.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1965, Halliburton's acquisitions program resulted in 16 units that were autonomous but closely coordinated into three main areas. One division was oil-field services and sales (46% of total earnings). The second was the engineering segment headed by Brown & Root (51% of total earnings), the focus of which was such international construction projects as military bases in Saigon and parts of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Centre near Houston. The third division, speciality sales and services to general industry (3% of total earnings), included missile cleaning and, through two subsidiaries, insurance.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1965, Halliburton's acquisitions program resulted in 16 units that were autonomous but closely coordinated into three main areas. One division was oil-field services and sales (46% of total earnings). The second was the engineering segment headed by Brown & Root (51% of total earnings), the focus of which was such international construction projects as military bases in Saigon and parts of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Centre near Houston. The third division, speciality sales and services to general industry (3% of total earnings), included missile cleaning and, through two subsidiaries, insurance.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1983, an economic recession plus lower oil prices reduced Halliburton's earnings from $8.3 billion in 1980, to $1.2 billion. Its response was to slash its number of employees from 115,000 to 65,000 by 1986. A lawsuit accusing Brown & Root of mismanaging a south Texas nuclear power plant construction project didn't help matters either – it was forced to pay $750 million.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1983, an economic recession plus lower oil prices reduced Halliburton's earnings from $8.3 billion in 1980, to $1.2 billion. Its response was to slash its number of employees from 115,000 to 65,000 by 1986. A lawsuit accusing Brown & Root of mismanaging a south Texas nuclear power plant construction project didn't help matters either – it was forced to pay $750 million.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the the early 1990s, another downturn in the US oil industry led to a major restructuring. 3,000 jobs were eliminated along with 26 vice-president slots. Ten of the company's semi-autonomous energy services units were merged into a single group called Halliburton Energy Services. Brown & Root's upstream oil and gas engineering and construction services were also combined to form Brown & Root Energy Services. Halliburton's engineering and construction activities were consolidated under a new Construction and Engineering Group. All non-core and under-performing units were shed.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the the early 1990s, another downturn in the US oil industry led to a major restructuring. 3,000 jobs were eliminated along with 26 vice-president slots. Ten of the company's semi-autonomous energy services units were merged into a single group called <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Halliburton Energy Services<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Brown & Root's upstream oil and gas engineering and construction services were also combined to form <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Brown & Root Energy Services<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Halliburton's engineering and construction activities were consolidated under a new Construction and Engineering Group. All non-core and under-performing units were shed.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In late 1995, Dick Cheney, who had served as US Secretary of Defense under George Bush (see Links with Government under 'Influence and Lobbying'), was named chairman, CEO and president of Halliburton, taking over the helm from the retiring Thomas Cruikshank. Cheney quickly launched another round of acquisitions – perhaps the most ambitious in company history. Landmark Graphics Corp was acquired in 1996 for $550 million in stock. OGC International Plc for $118.3 million, and NUMAR Corporation for $360 million. However, these were as nothing compared to the 1998 merger between Halliburton and Dresser Industries, in effect creating the world's largest oil services firm. The new Halliburton, with revenues in excess of $16 billion was led by William E Bradford (Dresser's chairman and CEO) as chairman and Cheney as CEO.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In late 1995, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Dick Cheney<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, who had served as US Secretary of Defense under George Bush (see Links with Government under 'Influence and Lobbying'), was named chairman, CEO and president of Halliburton, taking over the helm from the retiring <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Thomas Cruikshank<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Cheney quickly launched another round of acquisitions – perhaps the most ambitious in company history. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Landmark Graphics Corp<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>was acquired in 1996 for $550 million in stock. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>OGC International Plc<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>for $118.3 million, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>NUMAR Corporation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>for $360 million. However, these were as nothing compared to the 1998 merger between Halliburton and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Dresser Industries<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, in effect creating the world's largest oil services firm. The new Halliburton, with revenues in excess of $16 billion was led by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>William E Bradford<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>(Dresser's chairman and CEO) as chairman and Cheney as CEO.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Cheney years saw Halliburton's revenues rise from $5.7 billion in 1994 to $14.9 billion in 1999, fuelled primarily by growth outside the United States. During Cheney’s tenure as CEO, Halliburton’s overseas operations went from 51 percent of revenue to 68 percent of revenue. 'You’ve got to go where the oil is. I don’t think about it [political volatility] very much,' Cheney told the Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association annual meeting in 1998.11</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Cheney years saw Halliburton's revenues rise from $5.7 billion in 1994 to $14.9 billion in 1999, fuelled primarily by growth outside the United States. During Cheney’s tenure as CEO, Halliburton’s overseas operations went from 51 percent of revenue to 68 percent of revenue. 'You’ve got to go where the oil is. I don’t think about it [political volatility] very much,' Cheney told the Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association annual meeting in 1998.11</div></td></tr>
</table>Suzanne Garnham